Barry Barnes

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S. Barry Barnes is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. Barnes worked at the 'Science Studies Unit' at the University of Edinburgh with David Bloor in the 1980s and early 1990s, where they developed the strong programme in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. He moved to the sociology department in Exeter in 1992. Barnes was known for his relativistic perspective in regarding the unit of science as a form of culture among variety of cultures in human lifeworld. This opinion was elaborated in his book: Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory

Main works

• Interests and the growth of knowledge, London ; Boston : Routledge and K. Paul, 1977.
• with Steven Shapin (ed.), Natural order : historical studies of scientific culture, Beverly Hills, Calif ; London : Sage Publications, 1979.
• with David Edge (ed.), Science in context : readings in the sociology of science, Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1982.
• About science, Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1985.
• The Nature of power, Cambridge : Polity, 1988.
• Grays Thurrock district : a pictorial history, Chichester : Phillimore, 1988 ; 1991.
• The Elements of social theory, London : UCL Press, 1995.
• with David Bloor & John Henry, Scientific knowledge : a sociological analysis, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Bibliography

• M. Mazzotti (ed.), Knowledge as Social Order. Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.

External links

• Official page

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